It is fair to say that Luke Shaw has had a hit-and-miss start to life as a Manchester United player.

His big-money move from Southampton last summer was no surprise given his progress at St Mary’s, but he struggled for game-time and fitness in the early months of the campaign.

Prior to Saturday’s match against Chelsea, Shaw had featured just 14 times for United all season, and had not played since the FA Cup quarter-final defeat to Arsenal back in March.

A hamstring injury meant he missed all six of United’s recent victories that put them in contention for a top-three finish, but he was back on Saturday, putting in a remarkable performance against the current league leaders.

Shaw was unable to stop his side from losing, but United manager Louis van Gaal will have been impressed by what he saw.

After the match we took to Twitter to see what United fans thought of Shaw’s latest contribution and you can read a selection of what we found below:

Proud of the Lads, Luke Shaw had his best game in a Utd shirt...Blackett coming on: I cant explain that...alround great performance. Bliss

Vincent Ralph

After graduating with a degree in English Literature, Vincent completed a NCTJ-accredited qualification in newspaper and magazine journalism in 2005. Shortly after, in a somewhat leftfield move, he began working at a secondary school in Kent. After eight years – the last four of which were spent as Head of Sixth Form – he began to write full-time, combining his love of football with his passion for the written word.Alongside his work for HITC Sport, he also writes film reviews for HITC Lifestyle… along with the odd music interview when fate allows.